Azan Awais (Image credit: X) Pakistan’s struggle to produce a strong opening partnership in England has now lasted 16 years. They have not had a 50-plus opening stand in their last 27 Test innings in England. Their last opening partnership of 50 or more came in 2010.The same problem returned in the first Test against…
Theodore Roosevelt’s famous “man in the arena” passage remains one of his most enduring reflections on courage, effort and failure. In his 1910 speech “Citizenship in a Republic”, delivered at the Sorbonne in Paris, Roosevelt said: “The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and…
Since the mid-1990s, Mini Mathur has remained a recognizable figure in the public sphere. Her career took off as a television host before she found major fame as an MTV VJ, a role she took on after marrying filmmaker Kabir Khan, who was then focused on documentary work. In a recent conversation, Mini opened up…
Deepender Hooda had posted a tribute on the death of ex-Congress MP Sajjan Kumar. NEW DELHI: Punjab Congress leaders on Friday sought to distance the party’s state unit from Congress MP Deepender Singh Hooda’s remarks describing former party MP and 1984 anti-Sikh riots convict Sajjan Kumar as a “role model nationwide”. The leaders said the…
Satwik-Chirag out of BWF World Championships (ANI Image) India’s hopes of securing another medal at the BWF World Championships suffered a blow as Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty crashed out in the quarter-finals after losing to China’s Liang Wei Keng and Wang Chang in straight games.The Indian pair went down 18-21, 9-21 in a one-sided…
New swing bridge installed as major milestone reached for Wichelstowe canal An English town has installed a six-metre swing bridge whose deck contains the equivalent of 140 recycled plastic bottles per square metre and can be manually opened for passing boats. The new structure, officially named Bushey Fox Bridge, was lifted into position by crane…
Despite ‘Batwara 1947’ box office failure, Sunny Deol and Rajkumar Santoshi set to reunite for fifth film; is ‘Ghatak 2’ in the works? Sunny Deol and Rajkumar Santoshi are set to reunite for a project after their recent collaboration on ‘Batwara 1947’. Even though their latest release didn’t work at the box office, the actor-director…
(Representative image): The pirates, suspected of being involved in a previous hijacking, reportedly steered the vessel towards Somalia’s Nugaal coast. Two commercial vessels carrying 22 Indian crew members have been hijacked by armed pirates in separate incidents off Yemen and Somalia this week, with the sailors reported safe so far, according to a senior shipping…
Bowie had allegedly pledged allegiance to the Islamic State group. (Photo: FBI/DOJ) A 35-year-old New York woman has been arrested for allegedly plotting an Islamic State-inspired attack on the state Capitol in Albany, with prosecutors accusing her of planning to bomb the building and kill lawmakers.Jessica Bowie, of Albany, was charged with attempting to provide…
PC: Long overdue: a new, widespread, species of Pristimantis (Anura, Strabomantidae) from the Chocó region and the synonymy of Pristimantis subsigillatus For more than a century, a frog living across the forests of western Ecuador and southern Colombia carried the wrong scientific name. It was not hidden in some unexplored corner of the rainforest, either….